You really can't go wrong with a Hanna-Barbera Christmas specials.

🎄December 2020 Christmas List🎄

I never grew up watching The Flintstones, so my emotional attachment to them is essentially nonexistent. So I have no nostalgic connection to this tv holiday special. It’s all right, the jokes are corny and the story standard. I found it funnier that these Stone Age characters celebrate a holiday based on the birth of Christ, something that would happen for thousands of years. But the whole series was based on anachronistic jokes so I guess that’s the point. Two and a half stars.

Added to: Christmas Films I’ve Seen, Ranked

25 Days of Christmas: 4/25

A sufficiently sweet but forgettable Hanna-Barbera special. Fred has to become the big red man himself after Santa is grounded. Most of the characters do not have a whole lot to do, which is a shame. Not a waste of time if you are a Hanna-Barbera fan, though.

56/100. Watched on HBO Max (Desktop primarily; HD).

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After Santa sprains his ankle on the Flintstone's roof, Fred Flintstone takes his place to deliver toys across the world with Barney as his helper dressed as an elf. All at the same time, Fred must dress as Santa Claus and deliver toys to all the children at a holiday party hosted by his boss, or else he will be out of a job.

A Flintstone Christmas isn't the most original animated Christmas special, but it's the chemistry between Fred and Barney that makes this quite special. Love the old style animation from Hanna-Barbera as they incorporate many festive elements. Not to mention the amusing gags, especially when they arrive at the North Pole and inspect the elves working on the next batch of presents.

Yes, the notion of Christmas shouldn't exist in a prehistoric setting, but it's a cartoon!

The animation is your oldie made-for-TV "that'll do" quality, but it's also a musical where the songs aren't super bad? Pleasantly surprised. None of them are very good, but they're adequate and don't make me go "please stop singing please stop singing" over and over again.

I've never been a Flintstones fan, not even as a kid, but this was my first time ever seeing a whole thing with the English voice cast (as opposed to the Norwegian dub of my childhood) and the character seem a little more likeable with their English voices, actually.

fred and barney are such wife guys I live for it!! merry christmas!!

A prehistoric family celebrating a religious holiday that takes place thousands of years before their time never made much sense, but who am i to judge?

A freaking classic.

This is pretty cute. I only vaguely remember it from my childhood. Props to Wilma for being a forgiving wife when Fred decided to play Santa because his boss asked him after he had told Wilma he wouldn't do it.

A little longer than it needed to be, but I was surprised at how much I liked some of the songs and was impressed with some of the late-70's Hanna-Barbera animation.

🎄December 2020 Christmas List🎄

I never grew up watching The Flintstones, so my emotional attachment to them is essentially nonexistent. So I have no nostalgic connection to this tv holiday special. It’s all right, the jokes are corny and the story standard. I found it funnier that these Stone Age characters celebrate a holiday based on the birth of Christ, something that would happen for thousands of years. But the whole series was based on anachronistic jokes so I guess that’s the point. Two and a half stars.

Added to: Christmas Films I’ve Seen, Ranked

This is pretty cute. I only vaguely remember it from my childhood. Props to Wilma for being a forgiving wife when Fred decided to play Santa because his boss asked him after he had told Wilma he wouldn't do it.

Can't go wrong with a Hannah Barbera X-mas special.

Fred and Barney help Santa, but will Mr. Slate be a Scrooge?

It's fine. The songs aren't great, but it is a nostalgia thing for me.

Filmezinho de Natal para deixar rolando na TV para passar o tempo.

2 stars is more than I expected from a Flintstones movie. Not a big fan. I prefer their vitamins, push-ups, & cereals.

Trying to figure out the timeline here

Bro that animation looks soooooo off. It’s like when a pencil is 2 degrees off from being straight and your OCD kicks in. Except with this you can’t fix it

Why isn’t this one played every year? Great original songs.

A little longer than it needed to be, but I was surprised at how much I liked some of the songs and was impressed with some of the late-70's Hanna-Barbera animation.

obsessed with the typewriter

The Flintstones is a pretty brilliant concept in that it’s a cartoon about dinosaurs and cavemen so it’s intrinsically interesting to children, but it’s mostly about a grown man trying to maintain his marriage, friendships, and career so there’s plenty for adults to enjoy and relate to as well. Most of the actual written jokes in the special would make no sense to a child.

Smart to do away with the laugh track, the show feels more natural and rhythmic. This looks more expensive than other iterations of The Flintstones too, there’s more color and slightly more character movement. But the visual interest is still most created through montage.

The story is pretty basic and low-conflict but that’s a-okay. As always, there are some good dinosaur bits.